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Just like physical exercise, creative exercise will help you develop and strengthen your illustrative and design ability over time. If you make a habit of doing small simple daily exercises you’ll see a remarkable improvement in your work as you progress through your creative career.

Knowing your lighting sources when illustrating is a must. This simple exercise provides a blank canvas “the faces” and you have to draw in how the shading would look on each face based off the light source defined for each. The more you can train your mind and eye to think through lighting and the resulting shading the easier it gets to handle it on your own projects regardless of the theme or style.

Keywords: Shading, Exercise, Drawing, Creative

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2. zachlebar wrote: April 23, 2009 at 8:23 am

   this is something I’d love to see in video form Von. Since your just getting started with those, I’m sure you’ve got a bunch of ideas of your own for what to do them on, but I’d sure love a nice explanation of figuring out lighting and shading, how to go about deciding what should and should be shaded, why, ya know, all that good stuff.

3. The_Lurker wrote: April 24, 2009 at 2:52 am

   i’ve never left you feedback after three years of following your work but you are amazing. both talent wise and your generosity. you share much much more than you have to.

   i’ve learned more from you than any “school” i’ve ever gone to and i still owe them THOUSANDS of dollars. you are truly my michael jordan. your advice on other forums, critiques, examples and overall body of work is priceless. you’re pretty much my eyes and ears for this industry. you rock. because of you i’ve discovered guys like jorge alderete and so many more. and your discipline and approach is the blueprint that i kind of

   i’m not a paid designer at the moment given how things are right now but i still keep my eye on the ball daily and still consider myself a student. and guys like you make it enjoyable. everytime you post a new tutorial the light bulb comes on and i get hungrier and it keeps me going. they’re amazing. being humbled by your work keeps me hungry and wanting to always improve. you rock.

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4. InToGraphics wrote: April 28, 2009 at 4:32 am

   Thanks for this one.

   Is there an easy way to check whether the shading is done right ?

5. substances wrote: May 5, 2009 at 2:29 am

   Yes, that would be really helpfull to have a correction sheet !

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7. admin wrote: May 7, 2009 at 12:03 am

   Lighting is fluid and nuanced. There is not absolute right or wrong with this exercise. Like the notes say:

   “Next time you watch your favorite sitcom look at the faces, study the shading and how the lighting effects. Learn from the best example we have, nature.”

   One person could shade all these and it would look great and than another could shade them all and that would look equally as good but maybe different both in style and how they interpreted the bone structures etc.

   So a correction sheet really is somewhat pointless. Just review the shading and point out obvious areas that might be handled poorly or shaded differently to work better.

   Thanks.

   Von

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